Thanksgiving Sides Recipe Roundup – Home-Style Mashed Potatoes and Green Beans. Let’s skip the fancy recipes and trade them in for family favorites, and classics I know will go a long way.

Part one of a Thanksgiving Recipe Roundup – Home-Style Mashed Potatoes and Green Beans. In which, I skip the fancy recipe I had planned for family favorites and classic Thanksgiving Sides I know will go a long way.

Let me give you a rundown of some things going on. See that cram packed table up there? That is proof that I’m a wee bit off the deep edge with no shot of coming back.

That is my all from scratch ‘Thanksgiving’ dinner a week before Thanksgiving just because I wanted to ‘blog about some food’. That is crazy.

Next week, my family will gather around one of those feasts made to feed a small country, leave with doggie bags to feed us for a week longer and be so full and content with company that we will already want to start that post-holiday workout. But here I am, kicking things off a whole week early.

Why? Because smoked turkey is the most amazing thing you can give yourself this holiday season. Because I wanted to review a cookbook, and because I really just like to cook.

Friends and family got to gawk awkwardly as I climbed atop chairs and snapped photos before allowing them to dig into the spread (better planning on the crazy train noted for the future. I don’t like it when people see me in full-on blogger mode).

Now that you know what kind of Hell I inflicted upon my loved ones – let’s get on to the recipes!

These Home-style mashed potatoes are still my number 1 recipe on the site!

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Home-Style Mashed Potatoes

Yield: 6 servings

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

Get perfect mashed potatoes, every time with this recipe for my favorite Home-Style Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

5 lbs Yukon gold potatoes

3/4 cup heavy cream

4 tbsp unsalted butter

salt and pepper

Instructions

Scrub and peel the potatoes. Dice into even 1/2" cubes to even out cooking time.

Place in a large Dutch oven with just enough water to cover.

Salt the water and bring to a boil. Cook, covered, for 15-20 minutes, or until a fork pierces the potatoes easily.

Drain the potatoes and return to the Dutch oven.

Add the cream and using a blender or a masher, mash the potatoes.

Add 2 tablespoons butter and mix until incorporated.

Add more cream, if needed (starch may vary from potato to potato).

Season with salt and pepper to taste and top with remaining 2 tablespoons of butter to entice friends and family into extra big spoonfuls.